Theodore Bikel Quotes - Page 2

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• On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

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  Funny, Ends, Middle

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• I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

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  Letting Go, Tradition

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• The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

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  Air, Play, Faults

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• I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

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  Art, World, Specialists

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• I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

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  Purpose, Claims, Knowing God

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• I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.

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  Israel, Favors

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• Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

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  Accents, Very Good

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• You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

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  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

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  Vanity, Wish, Would Be

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• I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

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  Actors, Proud

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• I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

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  Jew, Convinced, I Can

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• After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

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  Advent, Given, Mass

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• Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

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  Grateful, Omission, People

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• Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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  Country, Art, Pride

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• As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

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  Art, Government, Abiding

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• Audiences are audiences.

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  Audience

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• But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

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  Artist, Toil, Culture

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• Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

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  Actors, Want, Direct

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

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  Believe, Principles, Jewish Life

  Theodore Bikel (2014). “Theo: An Autobiography”, p.436, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• In my world, history comes down to language and art.

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  Art, World, Language

  “Theodore Bikel, 'Fiddler on the Roof' Star, Dies at 91” by Duane Byrge , Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 21, 2015.

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• You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

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  Travel, New York, World

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• Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

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  Artist, Theatre, Labels

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• I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

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  Roles, Captains

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• Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

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  Country, Risk, Age

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• I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.

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  Simple, Glimpse, World

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